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[[File:Ice_belt.jpg|300px|thumb|right|A ice belt, full of lovely frozen stuff.]]

'''Ice Mining''' is the process of mining ice fields (commonly called "ice belts"). This mined ice can then [[refining|refined]] and used to fuel capital ship [[jump drive]]s, manufacture fuel for [[POS|player-owned starbases (POS)]], and light [[cyno|cynosural fields]]. Ice mining can only be done with specialized modules (ice miners) which can only be fit to [[ORE Basic Ship and Skill Guide|Mining Barges and Exhumers]]. Unlike [[Mining|ore mining]], ice miners mine one block of ice (with a volume of 1000 m<sup>3</sup>) per cycle; as it's not possible to increase this yield, the only way to mine ice more efficiently is to decrease the ice miners' cycle times.

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[[File:Dotlan.jpg|200px|thumb|right|A map of the Metropolis region from [http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/Metropolis/ dotlan]. The Eygfe system has an ice belt, as shown by the thin blue ring around its box.]]

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[[File:Ice_belt_scanner.jpg|200px|thumb|right|A scanner window showing an ice belt. Note that, since ice belts are [[Cosmic Anomalies]], they can be warped to immediately (without needing to use scan probes).]]

Ice belts can be found in every region of New Eden, but only in certain systems (a good place to see which systems is [http://evemaps.dotlan.net/ dotlan]). Each of these systems contains one ice belt, which spawns after downtime, disappears once mined out, and then respawns four hours later. Unlike [[Asteroids and Ore#Asteroid belts|asteroid belts]], ice belts are a type of [[Cosmic Anomalies|Cosmic Anomaly]], meaning they will appear in a different location in the star system every time they respawn, and can be found using your ship's onboard scanner (but do not require scan probes to find).

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Ice belts can be found in every region of New Eden, but only in certain systems (a good place to see which systems is [http://evemaps.dotlan.net/ dotlan]). Each of these systems contains one ice belt, which spawns after downtime, disappears once mined out, and then respawns four hours later. Unlike [[Asteroids and Ore#Asteroid belts|asteroid belts]], ice belts are a type of [[Cosmic Anomalies|Cosmic Anomaly]], meaning they will appear in a different location in the star system every time they respawn, and can be found using your ship's onboard scanner (but do not require [[Scanning & Probing|scan probes]] to find).

=== Ice Asteroids ===

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+[[File:Ice_belt.jpg|300px|thumb|right|A ice belt, full of lovely frozen stuff.]]
 '''Ice Mining''' is the process of mining ice fields (commonly called "ice belts"). This mined ice can then [[refining|refined]] and used to fuel capital ship [[jump drive]]s, manufacture fuel for [[POS|player-owned starbases (POS)]], and light [[cyno|cynosural fields]]. Ice mining can only be done with specialized modules (ice miners) which can only be fit to [[ORE Basic Ship and Skill Guide|Mining Barges and Exhumers]]. Unlike [[Mining|ore mining]], ice miners mine one block of ice (with a volume of 1000&nbsp;m<sup>3</sup>) per cycle; as it's not possible to increase this yield, the only way to mine ice more efficiently is to decrease the ice miners' cycle times.
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 [[File:Dotlan.jpg|200px|thumb|right|A map of the Metropolis region from [http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/Metropolis/ dotlan]. The Eygfe system has an ice belt, as shown by the thin blue ring around its box.]]
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+[[File:Ice_belt_scanner.jpg|200px|thumb|right|A scanner window showing an ice belt. Note that, since ice belts are [[Cosmic Anomalies]], they can be warped to immediately (without needing to use scan probes).]]
-Ice belts can be found in every region of New Eden, but only in certain systems (a good place to see which systems is [http://evemaps.dotlan.net/ dotlan]). Each of these systems contains one ice belt, which spawns after downtime, disappears once mined out, and then respawns four hours later. Unlike [[Asteroids and Ore#Asteroid belts|asteroid belts]], ice belts are a type of [[Cosmic Anomalies|Cosmic Anomaly]], meaning they will appear in a different location in the star system every time they respawn, and can be found using your ship's onboard scanner (but do not require scan probes to find).
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+Ice belts can be found in every region of New Eden, but only in certain systems (a good place to see which systems is [http://evemaps.dotlan.net/ dotlan]). Each of these systems contains one ice belt, which spawns after downtime, disappears once mined out, and then respawns four hours later. Unlike [[Asteroids and Ore#Asteroid belts|asteroid belts]], ice belts are a type of [[Cosmic Anomalies|Cosmic Anomaly]], meaning they will appear in a different location in the star system every time they respawn, and can be found using your ship's onboard scanner (but do not require [[Scanning & Probing|scan probes]] to find).
 === Ice Asteroids ===